On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:29:20PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 05 sep 12, 00:04:24, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote: > > > > > And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian? > > > > You can build them yourself using the build dependencies from Debian. > > If you go that route then that is when you'll need the "deb-src" entries > > in your sources list. There are some guides on the net: > > Hmm, are you sure about this?
oops, apologies. No that was a brain fart. Sorry, for some reason I was thinking of needing a later package than the one available in Debian. > As far as I can tell the deb-src line is needed only for the actual > source and for 'apt-get build-dep' to figure out the build dependencies > (since they are only available in the source package. Yeah, <sigh>, thanks for catching it. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120904220440.GB13132@tal
